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    Ifat Levy, PhD

    Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
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    Co-director, Science Fellows Program

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    Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity

    Co-director, Science Fellows Program

    Biography

    I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, in individual differences in these mechanisms, and in the possible contribution of decision traits to pathological behavior. Our research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, and on value learning and encoding. To study these topics we combine behavioral economics methods with functional MRI, as well as eye tracking and physiological measurements.

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    Education & Training

    PhD
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004)
    LLB
    Tel Aviv University (1997)
    BS
    Tel Aviv University, Physics (1994)

    Research

    Overview

    1. Risk and ambiguity in the negative domain – examining behavior and neural activation for decision in terms of risk and ambiguity between outcomes that include losses.
    2. Behavior and neural correlates of decision under risk and ambiguity across the lifespan.
    3. Decision parameters in obese and lean individuals – comparing attitudes towards decision parameters such as risk and ambiguity in different BMI groups.
    4. Implicit learning of value - behavior and neural correlates of value learning in conditioning paradigms and their relationship to choice processes.
    5. Representation of food in obese and lean subjects - how is food that is depicted in movies perceived and how does it affect choice.

    Medical Research Interests

    Basal Ganglia; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Central Nervous System; Cerebral Cortex

    Public Health Interests

    Aging; Obesity; Child/Adolescent Health

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Ifat Levy's published research.

    Publications

    2024

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    Comparative Medicine

    PO Box 208016

    New Haven, CT 06520-8016

    United States

    Locations

    • Decision Neuroscience Lab

      Academic Office

      100 College Street, Fl 11, Ste suite 1173, Rm 1173

      New Haven, CT 06510

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